Western Yugur (Western Yugur: yoɣïr lar (Yugur speech) or yoɣïr śoz (Yugur word)), also known as Neo-Uygur , is the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people. It is contrasted with Eastern Yugur , a Mongolic language spoken within the same community. Traditionally, both languages are indicated by the term "Yellow Uygur", from the endonym of the Yugur.
15-571: (Redirected from Uighur ) Uyghur may refer to: [REDACTED] Look up Uyghur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uyghurs , a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia Uyghur language , a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs Uyghur alphabets , any of four systems used to write the language Uyghur Khaganate ,
30-555: A : front i ), however for stems containing last close vowels are chosen unpredictably ( /pɯl ɣi / "knowing" vs. /ɯst qɑ / "pushing"). Voice as a distinguishing feature in plosives and affricates was replaced by aspiration , as in Chinese . West Yugur has 28 native consonants and two more (indicated in parentheses) found only in loan words. Western Yugur has eight vowel phonemes typical of many Turkic languages, which are /i, y, ɯ, u, e, ø, o, ɑ/ . The phoneme [ e ]
45-660: A Turkic empire in the mid 8th and 9th centuries Old Uyghur language , a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur Khaganate Uygur, Kulp , a village in Turkey See also [ edit ] Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Yugur , or Yellow Uyghur, another ethnic group of China Western Yugur language , the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people and descending from Old Uyghur Eastern Yugur language ,
60-484: A Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs Uyghur alphabets , any of four systems used to write the language Uyghur Khaganate , a Turkic empire in the mid 8th and 9th centuries Old Uyghur language , a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur Khaganate Uygur, Kulp , a village in Turkey See also [ edit ] Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Yugur , or Yellow Uyghur, another ethnic group of China Western Yugur language ,
75-539: A number of features, mainly archaisms , with several of the Northeastern Turkic languages , but it is not closer to any one of them in particular. Neither Western nor Eastern Yugur are mutually intelligible with Uyghur . Western Yugur also contains archaisms which are attested in neither modern Uyghuric nor Siberian, such as its anticipating counting system coinciding with Old Uyghur, and its copula dro , which also originated from Old Uyghur but substitutes
90-500: Is currently merging with [ i ] , especially with the younger generation. Several sound changes affected Western Yugur phonology while evolving from its original Common Turkic form, the most prolific being: Western Yugur has retained many words from East Old Turkic language and is the only Turkic language that preserved the anticipating counting system, known from Old Turkic . In this system, upper decimals are used, i.e. per otus ( per : one, otus : thirty) means "one (on
105-403: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Uyghur Uyghur may refer to: [REDACTED] Look up Uyghur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uyghurs , a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia Uyghur language ,
120-692: The Uzbek equivalent Men to’y-dï m ; the latter has a first-person marker suffix -(I)m attached to the verb while the equivalent Yellow Uyghur sentence doesn't. Modern Uyghur and Western Yugur belong to entirely different branches of the Turkic language family, respectively the Karluk languages spoken in the Kara-Khanid Khanate (such as the Xākānī language described in Mahmud al-Kashgari 's Dīwān al-Luġat al-Turk ) and
135-573: The Mongolic language spoken within the Yugur ethnic group Uygur (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Uyghur . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uyghur&oldid=1184472441 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
150-422: The Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people and descending from Old Uyghur Eastern Yugur language , the Mongolic language spoken within the Yugur ethnic group Uygur (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Uyghur . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
165-784: The Uyghur copulative personal suffixes. Speakers of Western Yugur reside primarily in the western part of Gansu province's Sunan Yugur Autonomous County . A special feature in Western Yugur is the occurrence of preaspiration , corresponding to the so-called pharyngealised or low vowels in Tuva and Tofa, and short vowels in Yakut and Turkmen . Examples of this phenomenon include /oʰtɯs/ "thirty", /jɑʰʂ/ "good", and /iʰt/ "meat". The vowel harmony system, typical of Turkic languages, has largely collapsed. However, it still exists for a-suffixes (back
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#1732837777927180-519: The concept of inalienable possessions . Four kinship nouns have irregular 1st and 2nd person forms by eliding the final vowel and using the consonantic variant: aqa → aqïŋ "elder brother". Yellow Uyghur verbal system, like Salar , is characterized by contact-induced (namely, under the influence of Chinese ) loss of person-number copular markers in finite verb forms, e.g. contrast the sentence “I have eaten enough” Men toz-dï in Yellow Uyghur and
195-517: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uyghur&oldid=1184472441 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Western Yugur language There are approximately 4,600 Turkic-speaking Yugurs. Besides similarities with Uyghuric languages, Western Yugur also shares
210-527: The verbal system, the notion of evidentiality has been grammaticalised , seemingly under the influence of Tibetan. Four kinship terms have distinct vocative forms, and used when calling out loudly: aqu (← aqa "elder brother"), qïzaqu (← qïzaqa "elder sister"), açu (← aça "father"), and anu (← ana "mother"). There are two possessive suffixes, first and second person -(ï)ŋ and third person -(s)ï , but these suffixes are largely not used outside of kinship terms ( anaŋ , anasï "mother"), similar to
225-449: The way to) thirty", is 21. For centuries, the Western Yugur language has been in contact with Mongolic languages, Tibetan , and Chinese, and as a result has adopted a large number of loanwords from these languages, as well as grammatical features. Chinese dialects neighboring the areas where Yugur is spoken have influenced the Yugur language, giving it loanwords. Personal markers in nouns as well as in verbs were largely lost. In
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